Male tarantulas grow at an accelerated rate compared to females of the same species. Usually a male will reach maturity a few molts before a female. This is an
Male tarantulas grow at an accelerated rate compared to females of the same species. Usually a male will reach maturity a few molts before a female. This is an
and the Mexican red knee tarantula Brachypelma smithi exhibiting a much slower growth rate than the Goliath tarantula
matophores reach sexual maturity long before growth has finished and it B. smithi ... rate than does the height during the growth of the shell.
seen to have differential growth rates before and after the attainment of maturity The values of b define the type of allometry (b= 1: isometry; b< 1:.
7 juil. 1988 Larval daily instantaneous growth rates ... with G the larval growth rate (d-l) SL
1996: Laboratory culture techniques for the goliath tarantula (Theraphosa blondi) (Latreille 1804) and the Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) (
O. B. SMITHI C. A. FOX'
on growth rates we separated two groups (A and B) of newly hatched Honduran Curly Hair tarantula (Brachypelma albopilosum Valerio
No growth in whorl width is observed in the area approx- imately 8S100° adapical of the nepionic con- striction. In ?Digonioceras smithi (Fig. 4AB)